Where can you go to listen to a Tibetan lama, a Jesuit priest, a Sufi Muslim activist, a Quaker and a social anthropologist in a single weekend? Answer: the Quaker Universalist…
The Battle of the Somme, which began on 1 July and continued until November 1916, was one of the bloodiest battles in human history. More than one million men were wounded or…
During the period of December to February I gradually lost all functions in my right arm. This would be bad enough normally but, having cerebral palsy, that arm was essential for…
We’re six floors high – a lovely building on a lovely street, close to the railway station and with natural lighting into the basement. The central staircase has original iron…
Recently I ministered about how my sense of the presence seemed that morning to delight in itself and how I shared in that delight. It isn’t always thus. Sometimes I seem to…
I have a confession to make: I’m reluctant to wear a ‘Quakers for Peace’ badge. Like ‘god’, peace means different things to different people. To some, it is avoiding or…
Spiritual truth is not like maths and physics, where we have a universal language precisely defined and understood in the same way around the globe ‘from Tokyo to Timbuktu’. I…
New Milton Meeting has spent time on how we might be able to ameliorate the current immigration crisis. We opened our meeting with a quotation from Quaker faith & practice…
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